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Institutions and Asia’s development

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory. Despite much progress, the dominant approaches do not agree...

  • Institutions
  • Organizations
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
The state and the ‘legalization’ of illicit financial flows

Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal...

  • Illicit financial flows
  • Political settlements
  • Gold
Working Paper
Power, institutions, and state-building after war

I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country’s state-building strategy after conflict. I show that two distinct modes of conflict termination—military victories and negotiated settlements—lead to...

  • Civil conflict
  • Political settlements
  • Statebuilding
Research Brief
Understanding elite commitment to social protection in Rwanda
  • Rwanda
  • Social protection
  • Policy transfer
Working Paper
Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana

On the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems. Using the Ghanaian case, this paper draws on newspaper...

  • COVID-19
  • State capacity
  • Clientelism
Research Brief
Pushing for policy innovation
  • Social protection
  • Policy entrepreneurs
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in Tanzania

In the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government officially launched a countrywide social safety net programme, and a year later it announced the introduction of an old age pension. In...

  • Social protection
  • Policy entrepreneurs
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia’s political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We...

  • Cash transfers
  • Ideas
  • Political settlements
Book
Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states
  • Fragile states
  • Inclusive growth
  • Elites
Working Paper
Social protection in an aspiring ‘developmental state’

Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been promoted as a model for the continent. This paper analyses the political drivers of the programme, arguing that elite commitment can...

  • Food security
  • Political settlements
  • Process tracing
Book Chapter
Distributional concerns, the ‘developmental state’ and the agrarian origins of social assistance in Ethiopia

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Food security
  • Political settlements
  • Process tracing
Book Chapter
Pushing for policy innovation

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Social protection
  • Policy entrepreneurs
  • Political settlements
Book Chapter
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Zambia

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Cash transfers
  • Ideas
  • Political settlements
Book Chapter
Institutions and Development

Part of Book Asian Transformations

  • Institutions
  • Organizations
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
The politics of scaling up social protection in Kenya

Literature on social protection in Kenya shows progress in implementation of cash transfers but not the social health insurance scheme. With a dearth of explanation for this contrasting promotion of social protection, this paper examines the role of...

  • Kenya
  • Social protection
  • Cash transfers
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UNU-WIDER releases guidebook on economic growth in fragile contexts
  • Fragile states
  • Inclusive growth
  • Elites
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